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Date:	Wed, 8 May 2002 11:33:14 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
From:	Michael A Chase <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Subject:	Re: mkpasswd (Win2K) cannot find the domain controller
To:	"Gerald S. Williams" <gsw AT agere DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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On Wed, 8 May 2002 13:55:45 -0400 "Gerald S. Williams" <gsw AT agere DOT com> wrote:

> Jason Tishler wrote:
> >     $ mkpasswd -d -u user domain
> > What happens if you try the above command with user and domain replaced
> > as appropriate?
> 
> From BASH ($USERNAME and $USERDOMAIN are correct):
>  $ mkpasswd -d -u $USERNAME $USERDOMAIN
>  mkpasswd: [2453] Could not find domain controller for this domain.
> 
> From CMD:
>  C:\cygwin>bin\mkpasswd -d -u %USERNAME% %USERDOMAIN%
>  mkpasswd: [2453] Could not find domain controller for this domain.

Can you tell us what the exact values of $USERNAME and $USERDOMAIN are?  If
they contain spaces or some other odd characters, they may need to be quoted.
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